Home / Quotes / Quote by Ursula Goodenough

Quote by Ursula Goodenough

“Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.”

Author

Ursula Goodenough

Ursula Goodenough is a renowned American biologist born on March 16, 1943. She has made significant contributions to the fields of molecular biology and developmental biology, particularly in the area of plant gene expression regulation. more

“The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us.”

Mind Joy Natural Religious Alive Miracle Tales Traditional Allowing Surround Yearning Inherent Emergence Naturalist

Book:The Sacred Depths of Nature

Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature

“The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism. The intermediate level, the chords and tempos, has to do with how the biochemistry and biophysics are organized, arranged, played out in space and time to produce a creature who grows and divides and is.”

Real Grows Space Levels Produce Creatures Notes Organized Divides Organisms Units Time And Space Chords Tempo Biochemistry

Book:The Sacred Depths of Nature

Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature

“I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence. And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.”

Self My Own Virtue Grace Bears Miracle Sacred Affection Witness Lifts Tenderness Emergence Sanctify Improbability

Author:Ursula Goodenough

“We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone.”